Presentation Title: Nano-Bio-Photonics: Studying Anthrax, RNA and the SARS-CoV-2 antibody interactions via Raman Spectroscopy
Prof. Marlan Scully presented this talk in the webinar on Nanomedicine, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology organized by Vebleo
Affiliation:
1Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA
2Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA
3Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 80544, USA
Biography
Marlan Scully received undergraduate training in Engineering Physics and Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wyoming and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University in 1966. He has held faculty positions at Yale, MIT, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico and the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik. He presently holds appointments at Texas A&M, Baylor, and Princeton Universities.
Marlan Scully has been instrumental in many seminal contributions to laser science and quantum optics. These include: The Scully-Lamb quantum theory of the laser, the classical theory of the free electron laser, the theory of the laser gyroscope and especially the theory of correlated spontaneous emission noise quenching in such devices, the first demonstration of lasing without inversion and the first utilization of coherence effects to generate ultraslow light in hot gases. Furthermore, Scully’s work on quantum coherence and correlation effects has shed new light on the foundations of quantum mechanics and yielded new insights into quantum thermodynamics.
Marlan Scully has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Max Planck Society and has received numerous awards including the Charles H. Townes Award of the OSA, the Quantum Electronics Award of IEEE, the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Adolph E. Lomb Medal of the OSA, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished Faculty Prize.
More recently, he was awarded the OSA Frederic Ives Medal / Quinn Prize which recognizes overall distinction in optics and is the highest award of the society, was named Einstein Professor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and received the Commemorative Medal of the Senate of the Czech Republic.
Abstract
In the past we have shown how to detect anthrax endospores in real-time using a variation of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) [1]. In a recent paper [2], we demonstrate RNA imaging at a single-base level.
For the purpose of resolving nucleotides within RNA strands, we used Tip-Enhanced Raman scattering involving a gold tip and a gold substrate. In related work, we [3] have studied the antibody-antigen interactions using Raman Spectroscopy.These subjects will be covered as time allows.
This talk was delivered in the webinar organized by Vebleo